"Zillow did not return a valid response"

[janzheng]

Hi there, I'm new to python and zillow, so bear with me

I'm getting Zillow did not return a valid response for some responses that seem to be valid.

Digging into the code, I'm finding that commenting out self.local_realestate.set_data(source_data['localRealEstate']) from place.py seems to make these responses valid.

I'm thinking it's a bug, but I'm not sure, and I don't know what "localRealEstate" means either.

[SioKCronin]

I got a similar response when running the example:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/siobhancronin/.venv/py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zillow/api.py", line 130, in GetDeepSearchResults
    place.set_data(xmltodict_data.get('SearchResults:searchresults', None)['response']['results']['result'])
  File "/Users/siobhancronin/.venv/py37/lib/python3.7/site-packages/zillow/place.py", line 197, in set_data
    self.zpid = source_data.get('zpid', None)
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

source_data is assumed to be type dict but is type list

[YutingLu900607]

how to solve this problem？ source_data is assumed to be type dict but is type list

[DShep68]

someone please message back how to fix this error i'm relatively new to python as well. please give a well detailed response

[stubs]

I have a PR open to help to address this #37.

It seems that GetSearchResults & GetDeepSearchResults will return either a single search result or a list of search results. When the latter occurs it leads to that assumption error of data types mentioned by @YutingLu900607 and @SioKCronin.

[nitrocode]

Here's something I noticed was swallowed by the above error message. I cloned your branch locally and stepped through it and I see this when I look at the XML. I'm using the example code in the README.md

Example code for reference and my key is stored in env var ZWSID

import zillow
import os

key = os.environ['ZWSID']
address = "3400 Pacific Ave., Marina Del Rey, CA"
postal_code = "90292"

api = zillow.ValuationApi()
data = api.GetSearchResults(key, address, postal_code)

Swallowed error:

>>> xmltodict_data['SearchResults:searchresults']['message']['text']
'Error: this account is not authorized to execute this API call'

I can replicate this using httpie / curl. Replace $ZWSID with your key or insert it in your env variable. Run the command and you'll see the same authorization failure message.

curl https://www.zillow.com/webservice/GetSearchResults.htm\?zws-id\=$ZWSID\&address\=3400+Pacific+Ave.%2C+Marina+Del+Rey%2C+CA\&citystatezip\=90292

Noticed that I only had a few things checked on this page.

https://www.zillow.com/webservice/EditAPIProfile.htm

• [x] Directory API
• [ ] Mortgage API
• [x] Postings API
• [x] Profile Summary API
• [ ] Property Details API
• [x] Reviews API
• [ ] Valuation API

Once I check all of them and hit Submit, it returns a 500 error.

ERROR 500 Our Server is Unavailable Now Our engineers are working on this issue, please check back in a few minutes. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Perhaps once Zillow fixes this page, I enable all the APIs, and then this python module should work 🙏 .

For now, I may switch to Redfin.

[nitrocode]

Contacted Zillow and they said they are in the process of shutting down the Zillow API and have moved to an invite only API to this third party.

See: https://bridgedataoutput.com/docs/platform/